I think the computer had a different name. I also recall that they could teleport short distances by themselves, but for longer distance teleportation, they needed some computerized assist for navigation. I seem to remember that they would get easily lost after a certain teleport "length".

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I'm pretty sure that the computer in the original series was also called Tim, but I think that it was an acronym then.

I seem to recall that the original series called their teleportation "jaunting", and I think they wore some computerized assistive device, like a belt or wristband, that helped them "jaunt".

Oh, and the Tomorrow People are genetically incapable of killing? How convenient ...

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I hope that the show explores that with different scenarios. Take, for example, the first Spider-Man movie, where the thug that kills Uncle Ben, having been cornered by Spider-Man, trips over a pipe and falls out the factory window to his death. If Peter Parker were a Tomorrow Person, what would have happened?

If Walter White were a Tomorrow Person, would the outcome for

Jane

have been any different?

How about for

Gus

?

How directly do you have to be trying to kill the person? Can you intentionally, with malice aforethought, set up a Rube Goldberg device that results in their death, inevitably but indirectly?

What if you know the gun is loaded with blanks, and you're firing at a distance you know the person you're firing at won't be harmed in any way by anything ejected by the firing of the blank... but someone, completely unbeknownst to you, and when you thought there's no possible way anyone could have gotten access to the gun to do so, has replaced the blanks with real bullets...

I think it's clearly drawing from certain common precepts in the genre, if not outright from several of the shows that have been mentioned. But then, it's certainly better that it draws from several in different ways than it being just a remake with no though about stories, characters or plot arcs, which is what too many new series are guilty of being.

Keep it interesting to the viewer. Develop the characters. Move the story along intelligently. Maintain some level of consistency within the Universe as its laid out for the show. Don't dumb it down, but simply allow some things to go over the heads of some viewers. And it'll do well.

And frankly Jumper, Push, X-Men and Matrix are certainly among some of the enjoyable top 10-20% of movies I've seen, too. So all in all, that's a pretty good pedigree.

But if you enjoyed watching Tomorrow People in the 80s, don't go searching out the old footage, since you'll probably be appalled by the bad acting and 1970s production values.

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I was fully aware when I first watched it that the acting was abysmal and effects were laughable. It WAS a children's show after all, made without a budget to speak of, and it seemed that the child actors wrote it themselves. I don't want to see the original again, but I definitely liked the pilot.

I seem to recall that the original series called their teleportation "jaunting", and I think they wore some computerized assistive device, like a belt or wristband, that helped them "jaunt".

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When I said computer assist, I MEANT assistive device. Thanks for the clarification. I recall it being a belt "pack" device. I seem to recall that they

had to put it on the Prime Minister when they kidnapped him (via teleportation). They needed to get some of their number released from custody which is why they kidnapped him.

Actually, I think we're both right. For some reason, I think that the device they wore somehow interfaced with TIM to help enable them to teleport better/further. Of course, that doesn't make much sense, but we're talking about a ~40 year old series.

Actually, I think we're both right. For some reason, I think that the device they wore somehow interfaced with TIM to help enable them to teleport better/further. Of course, that doesn't make much sense, but we're talking about a ~40 year old series.

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Worse yet, I'm dealing with a memory that goes back to the early to mid 80s at best, so if I'm wrong, it's merely time and age. I haven't seen those episodes since they were originally shown in the US. I do have fond memories for a show like that, with no budget, trying to tell a coherent story.